33: A Night at the Wiener Circle
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Hi, it's Ira recording this in 2006. This episode of our show, episode 33, is one that actually never was broadcast nationally. We did a local broadcast of it in Chicago and always sort of intended to go back to it and make it into a national version and never did. In fact, we don't even have like a master copy of it, a digital recording of it. And what you're about to hear is actually from a cassette we have of the show, which is the only copy we can find. Anyway, here we go. I don't remember when I first wandered into the winter circle. I'm sure it was after midnight. I'm sure that as always the place was mobbed. I'm sure that as always people were screaming. I need a veggie burger! I need some cheese! I need some cheese burger and a fry. The fun of that to extend is filled with a swarm of people. When I first went, it was a weird mix of cops. There was a lot of cops there, drunk, yuppy, 20-somethings, working-class people who work in the neighborhood. But what really got to me was the staff. There's one of these windows you can look through, you know, they ask for your order through, and they're in a space so small you could not park a car back there. And it's hot. You can tell it's hot. There are deep fryers and grills pouring off heat. It's hot grease everywhere, and they're constantly bumping into each other, getting into each other's way. And all of them, all of them are screaming non-stop. It's kind of work environment that makes you wonder. Only one thing. Why don't these people want to kill each other? I don't know. What is it got? Stop being so mad at me. I don't know. Why the f*** did you order? That's all it is. 2/30. That's all. It's very easy. Then we'll get a lot. Now you can talk. F*** it! But if you watch the workers at the wiener circle a little while more, you realize something else. They actually seem kind of happy. They're getting along. They kind of love each other. They joke around. I thought whoever manages this place really knows how to run a restaurant.
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